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Speaker 1: The first weekend of official business was successful for Raging

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Cagen's Football as they add some commitments to the twenty

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twenty seven class. Let's break it all down here on

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Raging Rundown. What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to

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another episode of Raging Rundown, the show where you will

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know all things ul sports. I'm your guy, JaMarcus Fitzpatrick,

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but you know you can always call me fits. And

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in today's episode, we'll be talking about the commitments that

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Raging Cajun Football has received to their twenty twenty seven class,

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as well as a pair of bullpen arms that Raging

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Cagen's Baseball has added to their team for next season. So,

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as we've talked about in previous episodes, we can which

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you can go and check that out. This past weekend

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or I guess the past couple of days has been

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the first official weekend of official visits for Rage Incag's Football.

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They have a couple of weekend schedule. I have some

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names listed down of what those guys will be for

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the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: But as it stood, you.

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Speaker 1: Had seven players to come in and have official visits

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this past weekend, you had Summer Creek dB Caleb White,

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Very Day wide receiver Robert Taylor University lab d Lyman

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Mason Smith, Saint Edge Jock Robischow, Shadow Creek tight end

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Bryce Coleman STM safety Landon or t And then I

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was recently told while I was posting about it that PJ.

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Mackeon Junior was also on an official visit there as

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well this past weekend. But you were extremely successful because

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you got three players to commit while they were on

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their official visits. One actually just announcing right after I

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started recording this episode, So I initially had it as

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football gets a pair of commitments, and I just had

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to change into football gets commitments after official visits.

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Speaker 2: I'm probably going to be checking my.

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Speaker 1: Phone as I'm recording this episode to make sure nobody

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else comes back and circles back and announced their commitment

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as well. So we'll start with the initial guy that

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announced his commitment, which was a defensive lineman, Mason Smith,

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the university high defensive lineman. For him, he was initially

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offered back on June fifteenth of last year, so this

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is a year in the making process of getting him

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to commit to your program. If I'm assuming what happened

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is that he went to a prospect camp. They are

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holding prospect camps right now for the twenty eighth class.

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He probably went to a prospect camp. They liked what

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they saw, they gave him an offer. He was the

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third school that he received an offer from. And in

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the process, now you're beating out the likes of Southern

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miss Liberty, TWU Lane, South Alabama, and Arkansas State. So

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all very linear schools in terms of the level that

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you're competing against. You beat them out to be able

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to get this commitment. Obviously, he was a player that

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was on an official visit this weekend. He is listed

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as a three star. He's the thirty eighth best player

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in the state according to twenty four to seven Sports,

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and it's the second rank defensive lineman in the state

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of Louisiana. So you're getting a really talented player standing

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at six foot three, two hundred and eighty pounds. If

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I'm not mistaken, let me go back to his Twitter

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account just so I can confirm that six foot three,

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two hundred and eighty pounds and runs of five flats

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in the forty and he also plays baseball as a

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first baseman. So he's got some athleticism to him. If

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I had to guess, he's probably going to be more

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of an interior defensive lineman, something like what we see

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with Fitzgerald West and Maxie Bodwin, players of that caliber.

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So adding him to the mix is really big for

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you because we know that the defensive line plays in

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a forty on set, but they don't just play with

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four guys. They like to rotate as many guys as possible.

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So adding someone young to the group is someone we

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could potentially see him slowly working his way in through

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special teams, maybe getting a rapper to here and there,

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and eventually becoming a guy that helps you to be

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able to win ball games on Saturdays. So kudos to

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him for announcing his commitment. I reached out to him

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to see what went into his decision. I have not

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heard back from him just yet, but once I do

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hear something, I'll either talk about it at on my

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day job at KTC, or I'll talk about it here

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on the pod. The next player that announced his commitment

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was Landon or Ti, who is a local product. So

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he is staying at home and coming up in a

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situation for you where you identified him as somebody that

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you wanted very quickly, and he committed very quickly. He

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received his offer on May the fourth. He had other

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offers from the likes of Nichols Incarnate Word in Northwestern

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State so FCS school. So this is his biggest offer

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that he head up until this point. You got him

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on an official visit and he commits. Getting the footprint

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of a local product, in my opinion, is always going

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to be really big because obviously the majority of this

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team's roster is comprised of guys in the state of Louisiana.

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But there's nothing better than being able to get a

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local guy. And like we've talked about before on this podcast,

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it's not that they don't recruit local guys. But when

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you think about some of the guys that are in

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this same class, you think of brayln Cale, you think

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of Kuran Eugene, you think of you know, so many

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other guys that are in this twenty twenty seventh class.

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Speaker 2: They're receiving powerful offers.

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Speaker 1: So once you kind of get outbitted in a sense,

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it's not that you're giving up, it's just that you

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know you're probably not gonna get them. You still cultivate

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that relationship in case he goes somewhere and it doesn't

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work out there and he wants to transfer back home.

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Like what we saw with Walker Howard, what we saw

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with Fitzgerald West. We've seen it time and time again.

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The guys will go to bigger schools, it doesn't work

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out out there for them, and they come back because

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they have great relationships with your coaching staff. So you

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still want to recruit the kid. It's just ultimately sometimes

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you're not in the ballpark to be able to land

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the commitment, but you land a commitment with him. This

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past season, he played in twelve games. He was first

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team All District and also All stayed for the LFCA,

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which I think is the Louisiana Football Coaches Association. If

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for two, one hundred and ninety pounds As a safety,

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he had two interceptions, ten pass breakups, one hundred and

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twenty two tackles, forty eight of them being solo. So

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he really has a nose for the football. And if

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that secondary safety that's near near the box in the

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Cajun's defensive scheme when they go in the four to

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two five set, because they're based out of a four

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to three, but when they take one linebacker out and

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they put an extra safety in based on those type

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of tackling numbers, that's probably going to be the type

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of safety that he would be in this particular ski.

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to commit to your school after getting a extended an

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offer to him very early and being able to make

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that happen, that's really huge. So I asked him what

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went into his decision, and he said, the overall staff

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and how everybody treated you good from the second that

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you were in the building. So I'm probably going to

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try to talk to him in person to get a

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little bit more insight about what went into his decision

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and how the visit as a whole went. So that's

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another commitment. Kudos to him for making his decision to

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become a Raging Cajun that you add to the class

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as well. And the last commitment that Football received as

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of today and he announced it probably within the last

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hour is Summer Creek dB Caleb White. We talked about

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him in a previous episode that he is a cornerback

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and as I'm looking up some information about him as well,

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his father is Reggie White, a running back that played

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in the NFL. Not the great defensive lineman that we

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all know and love as well, but his dad also

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did play in the NFL. He originally went to Oklahoma

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State and was undrafted in two thousand and one. Spent

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a couple of years in the league. So he has

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a football pedigree and background and knows what it takes

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to get to that type of level because he has

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that example right there in his household. He originally received

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his offer from the Cajuns back in March. That was

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his twelfth offer, so he is a hot commodity. Getting

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him to commit to you. You beat out the likes

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of Apps State in Texas State, North Texas, Duke Texas

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el Passle, which actually has an official visit set with

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him for next weekend. So it'll be interesting to see

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if he will still go on that visit if he

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will cancel it. I have not heard from him just

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yet about what that decision will entel. But winning these

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type of recruiting battles is really important, you know, with

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college football twenty six or twenty five and now twenty seven.

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Coming out, we saw a lot of that usage happening

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in recruiting battles where you're going head to head with

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different schools, and when they are on the same level

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as you, or they're comparable with the same type of

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school as you are, it's really big when you're able

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to win these recruiting battles bring guys into your program

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when they're quality players. He is five to ten, one

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hundred and seventy one pounds. This past season as a corner,

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he only had seventeen targets his way. He allowed just

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two catches the entire season, no touchdowns, five interceptions, with

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one of them being a pick six. He had ten

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pass breakups, two tackles for loss in twenty one tackles.

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make a whole lot of tackles for you. He's gonna

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come down and shut down one side of the field

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for you, which is really really big in your defense. Right,

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you have a Brent Gordon Junior, who's a man and

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man type of corner on one side. You have an

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Avery Demrie, you have a Jeremiah Moses, so you have

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a lot of cornerbacks that can play in pressman situations.

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that this young man can be for you as well.

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type build in the sense of what he is, and

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who knows, maybe he could materialize and become something like

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that too, especially when it comes to the return game.

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So you add three commits from this class after going

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through your first weekend of official visits. So now you

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are up to nine players in this class and they

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are as follows. Shallow Creek tight end Bryce Coleman, who

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was also on an official visit this past weekend. A

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Oyls defensive lineman Kobe Smith. He'll be in town next weekend.

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This coming weekend. That is Faraday wide receiver Rob Taylor.

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He was on a visit this weekend. Westbrook quarterback Tam Anderson.

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He will be on a visit next weekend. Angleton offensive

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lineman Noah ERNs next weekend. Black Man and wide receiver

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John Walker. University lab defensive lineman Mason Smith, lend Nor Ti,

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and Caleb White are all a part of your class.

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So now things are coming even more closer to form

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your one commitment away from having double digit commits here

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in the twenty twenty seven class, and the work is

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just continuing to go along, right. You get guys in,

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you get commitments very early, and now the thing is

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being able to hold the rope, as we always say,

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because as these guys continue to play through their senior seasons,

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somebody can see them and can offer them, and they

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can blow up and become a four star, even a

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Speaker 2: We've seen things like this happen overnight.

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Speaker 1: You think about a guy like a Marquez Davis, who's

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a Northwest product here in Opelousis. You will originally offer him,

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he gets an offer from Lane Kiffin, goes on an

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official visit, and now he's projected to commit to the Tigers.

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this will happen, but it's a possibility that it always

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could happen. So the Cajuns are going to have to

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hold the rope with these nine commits. Continue to cultivate

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these relationships. Let these young men know, hey, we want

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you to be a part of our program and if

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you come here, you will be a part of something

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building something special.

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Speaker 2: Towards the future. So you're up to.

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Speaker 1: Nine commits here in your twenty twenty seven class. You'll have,

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i believe, two more weekends coming up with the official

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visits that you have going on. But football was not

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the only program that received some commitments, as we also

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saw baseball get a pair of commitments. And they are

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coming from a familiar place in the Sun Belt, and

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they have a lot of familiarity with your coaching staff

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as well. We'll discuss all of those things, what they

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will bring to the table, and who they are when

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we come back here on Rage and Rundown. Hey, guys,

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of Raging Rundown. We're going to get back into the

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action in just a second, but before we do, please

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do me a favorite. If you're watching this on YouTube,

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us get in front of more Raging Cajun fans like yourself. So,

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as I mentioned before the break, Raging Cagen's Baseball also

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received a pair of commitments from guys out of the

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transfer portal. We've talked about some of the junior college guys,

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the high school signees that they've already added as commits.

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Now they're working through the portal, and coach Matt Diggs

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talked about it after they're lost to Mississippi State how

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he felt that if he could add some strong arms

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to the bullpen that he already has, that this team

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could be in line for having a goal of hosting

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a regional in twenty twenty seven. So they're one step

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closer to that as they get commitments from two pictures

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that are transferring from Marshall, which is the place that

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pitching coach Taylor Sanderford came from, so they are very

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familiar with your pitching coach, which is a huge positive

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to what you're having building in your program. The first

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picture is Blaine Albright. He is a lefty. He has

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two more years of eligibility. He stands at six foot three,

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he's two hundred and twenty five pounds. He originally signed

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with Indiana and red shirted that first year in Bloomington

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and then transferred to Marshall and played there for two

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seasons in his first season with the Herd, he was

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one to oher. He had a four to twenty four

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ERA and seventeen appearances, gave up fourteen hits, five walks,

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struck out twenty and seventeen innings, and his opponents only

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hit a two to twelve batting average against him. But

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then coach Sanderford obviously last season leaves and things didn't

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go as well for Albright. He was one for three.

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He had a seven point nine to two ERA over

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fourteen outings, including four starts and twenty five innings. He

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allowed thirty hits, twenty five walks, and struck out twenty three.

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He talked about in an article with Kevin Foote that

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he was struggling with a pulled hamstring in his first

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outing of the season and things kind of went downhill

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from there with him. But he talked about how much

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he appreciated coach Sanderford just as the coach that he

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truly is. And I reached out to him and asked

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him what went into his decision, and he said, coach

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Sanderford playing and simple played under him and Marshall and

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he's the best.

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Speaker 2: Coach I've ever had.

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Speaker 1: So you have a guy on your staff that has

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cultivated a relationship well enough, and that's that's going to

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be a key component to a lot of your recruiting battles,

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is that if you build great relationships and it's bigger

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than the sport with a lot of these guys and

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these coaches, it makes them want to play for you.

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I've been around enough of these programs at UEL that

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I hear that as a common theme that these guys

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really care. It's not just a business here. They truly

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genuinely care about you as a player and a person

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rather than just you being you know, an X or

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O on the on the field or whatever the competition

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state of where you're at. And I think that is

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truly important because that is what is going to matter

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most when things are hard in games and guys are

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not things are not going their way in different games,

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They're gonna play for you because they know you care

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about them. And so this is an example of that.

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Getting the commitment from him, and then he also got

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a commitment from Charlie Crabs, who also was at Marshall.

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He is a senior and this will be his last

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season coming in to twenty twenty seven. He's six foot two,

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two hundred and fifteen pounds, and he was under coach

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Sanderford for two seasons before obviously Sandy came to UL

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this past year. In twenty twenty five, he was five

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and two with a two to ninety two ERA in

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twenty seven outings for the thunder and heard he gave

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up thirty six hits in fifty two and a third

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innings with twenty four walks and forty strikeouts. And this

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past season, Crabs was two and three with three saves

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and a six point zero eight ERA in twenty four

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appearances in forty innings. He surrendered forty five hits, twenty

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three walks, and struck out thirty eight. So again he

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talked about how much he cares about coach Sandford and

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if I can go and pull that DM up of

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where I reached out to him, because I'm also reading

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from the article that Kevin put Kevin foot excuse me

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put out talking about the two commitments with the Advocate,

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I asked him what went into his decision as well.

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He said, getting back with coach Sanderford was a huge

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part of it. But during my recruiting process, I just

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started to fall in love with the Cajun's winning culture

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and especially what Coach Diggs preaches to the program. So

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another component about this that I haven't talked about. Neither

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one of these guys took a visit, None of them have.

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Neither one of them have come to Lafayette just quite yet.

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They'll be here later, probably in the back half of

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June to take their official visits. They are committing off

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of the strength of Coach Sanderford and off the relationship

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they have cultivated with him and what they believe can

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happen based on what Coach Diggs has told them through conversations.

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And that is paramount because you can wow people with

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glitz and glam, and you can show them great facilities

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and uniforms, and you can give them an NIO check

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and all of these things like that. But when guys

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are willing to commit to you off the strength of hey, man,

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I care about you as a person and I want

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you to be great in life, you can't beat that.

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So you get two bullpen arms. You get two arms

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added to your bullpen. That is one being a very

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experienced writy I believe Charlie krabs Is and then Blaine

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Albright having two years of eligibility, somebody that can help

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you as well with what you already have on your staff.

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The ty Romans that saw your Cruits, the Parker Smith's,

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the Hayden Pearson's, the cam Riley's, the Landing Victorians, like

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you're adding a ple tour of guys to give you

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an opportunity to be really, really special in twenty twenty seven.

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If I'm not mistaken, I think I have a sheet

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pulled up where you guys know I like to do

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rock layouts, and I can see it fully and I

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think I did when I know I have one for football,

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because that's what's coming up on my sheets guide. Let

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me see I did do one for baseball. So right now,

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out of your bullpen, based on what we've heard of

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guys returning and the commitments that you have you currently have,

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I think this is sixteen pitchers, Ty Rowman, Garrett Carter,

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cam Riley, Parker Smith, Hayden Pearson, saw your Pruett, Chase Morgan,

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potentially Geral Tilett, land In, Victorian Bryce Wilson, Evan Vincent

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from Turlin's Catholic Trent Lape. I'm trying to remember how

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to pronounce his name. Correctly, but he's the BIBSI transfer

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coming in David and Kubat, Maddix, Sullivan, Charlie Cribs, and

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Blaine Albright. I think that is sixteen pitchers that you

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have in your bullpen, and what I've been told is

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they could be adding more out of the transfer portal.

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They're looking to add a catcher and maybe some infielder

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or outfielder as well. As the portal window will be

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said to close on June thirtieth.

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Speaker 2: It's June the.

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Speaker 1: Seventh as of now, so they have plenty of time

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to work through those things to see what guys they

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want to add to their program. So it was a

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very eventful week, a big week for the Raging Cajun's

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football and baseball programs as football gets three commitments and

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now gets their twenty twenty seven class up to nine players.

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Baseball adds a pair of arms to the bullpen as well.

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So that's going to wrap up this episode here on

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Rage and Rundown. If you've made it to this point

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in the video, thank you so much. Please do me

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Just like yourself, I'm your guy, jam Marcus Fitzpatrick. We'll

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see you guys next time.